Both Lufkin hospitals hope to receive the initial doses of either the Moderna or Pfizer vaccine in the coming week.
The Pfizer vaccine was approved by the Food and Drug Administration on Dec. 11 and requires two doses, both of which are to be kept at ultra-low temperatures. The Moderna vaccine is still awaiting FDA approval, but would not require the same freezing temperatures.
âThe state has told us we can expect to receive our initial allotment soon, possibly within the next week,â Woodland Heights Medical Center president Drew Emery said. âWe are told it is the Moderna vaccine.â
St. Lukeâs Health-Memorial remains hopeful to receive 100 doses of a vaccine from either Pfizer or Moderna in the coming week, market president Monte Bostwick said. However, until he sees the vaccine, he isnât certain of whether that is true, he said.
For a wide range of reasons, 2020 is a year that we won’t soon forget from the heroism on the front lines of medicine, powerful demonstrations surrounding racial equality, and the change to our day-to-day lives and our perspectives.
It was a monumental year in so many ways for St. George’s University School of Medicine, its faculty, staff, and students. SGU made history when students and graduates secured 1,124 residency positions across the US and Canada in 2020 a 95 percent residency placement rate for eligible 2020 US graduates who applied for US residencies and a
record for the University. Over the summer, approximately 450 of those grads began their residencies in New York-New Jersey area hospitals, some of the hardest-hit hospitals in the nation during the early days of the COVID pandemic.